Are we a bit over the top?

[Livinwright Farm]

Pictures taken through the building process on the 12x13 barn.
For the anchors we used four 6x6x12's

edited due to spelling error.

 

[iamcuriositycat]

Wow. Sweet! (Ugh, what is it with me and the 80s tonight? Sheesh).

That is a gorgeous set-up. I want one of those.

 

[Livinwright Farm]

Wow. Sweet! (Ugh, what is it with me and the 80s tonight? Sheesh).

That is a gorgeous set-up. I want one of those.

The triple double-hung window was a complete suprise! We were originally thinking of doing the standard chain of windows across the top, but then we went into a Lowes and were looking around, spotted these windows in the clearance section, looked them all over for "the defect", a sales associate asked if he could help, we asked what was wrong with them that they were on clearance, he told us nothing was wrong with them, someone ordered it and never came to pick it up. It would normally be upwards of $500!
$76 later, we came home with a great find & buy for our barn!

Do you by chance have 3D Home Architect? If so, I can send you the file for rough specs.

 

[PattySh]

That barn is adorable. So are your goats!! I bet they love it.

We had a smaller barn on the property when we moved in. It worked for a while but was built poorly and started to deteriorate (wooden floors rotted out) so we built this one from plans we bought online and it ended out alot bigger than I thought it would. Quite a project, we built it from wood from a local sawmill. The whole family worked on it. I love it.

Here is a pic of my barn (front)taken a few yrs back.

We added on an outside coop (attached to the backside of the barn for convenience) and moved the chickens from a room inside the barn to the new coop before we started milking the goats. For reasons of dust and poop.

 

[Livinwright Farm]

Yes, the OP would be the original poster, and that would be you.

And that's my bad (yikes--did I grow up in the 80s, yes I did!), because I am fairly new on these boards (though not-so-new on the BYC boards) & didn't remember or bother to look to see who the OP was. Sorry!

Thanks for the additional info & I can't WAIT to see pictures!!!

Here are some rough plans done on Paint.

I can send you what we used for materials at another time, if you like.

 

[Rebbetzin]

I put my heat lamp on in the chicken coop when it gets close to 32 here. Which is not that often in Tucson AZ. But, it brings the coop up to 40 degrees.

Tonight it will be in the low 40's. And two of the girls are deciding to sleep on a chair in the run rather than go in the coop!

I worry they will get too cold sleeping outside. I suppose they realize it is warmer in the coop.